After being trained hard by the immortal for an entire day in the name of teaching...
"Hiss~ It hurts."
A white-haired girl held her waist with one hand and supported the wall with the other, dragging her exhausted and sore body out of the training room with difficulty.
"Are you okay?" Seeing Lin Ling in this state the instigator Fu Hua couldn't help but feel a little regretful. She wondered if she had overdone it.
"You damned bastard! Don't you know whether I'm okay or not?" The white-haired girl half-buried her head and glanced resentfully at the handsome girl beside her. "Really, you don't know when to hold back. It seems I'll never let you be the first in the future. Your hand is too strong; my small body can't take it."
"Be the first? What does that mean?"
Though she was tens of thousands of years old, Fu Hua still couldn't understand some of Lin Ling's terms, especially since she had lost most of her memory (even if she remembered, she might still not understand it).
"Well, it's a bit complicated to explain. Anyway, you'll understand it slowly over time. I'll teach you step by step."
"Well..." Since she didn't understand, Fu Hua didn't dwell on it. After all, this person had says a lot of weird things even though they had only known each other for a day, so she wasn't surprised.
Nonetheless, she extended her hand to Lin Ling. "Come on, I'll help you back to the dormitory."
"Wow!"
Fu Hua was about to reach out and lift Lin Ling's hand that was leaning against the wall, but Lin Ling flinched and immediately stepped back. With a frightened expression, she said, "You scared me. I thought you were going to hit me again. Alas, I have a psychological shadow of you now, so don't touch me for the time being."
"Oh..." Fu Hua muttered awkwardly, while apologizing, "Sorry, I should have reduced the intensity of the Valkyrie training course on the first day."
She silently retreated behind Lin Ling with an apologetic expression.
Lin Ling pursed her lips. "Just a dry verbal apology? There's no sincerity at all."
"Then, what should I do?" asked the immortal.
"Hehe, it's very simple." Lin Ling pointed to her fair and delicate face. "Give me a kiss, and I'll forgive you."
"You!" Hearing this, the apology on Fu Hua's face disappeared immediately, replaced by a vein bulging in anger. She raised her fist again. "It seems the lesson I gave you wasn't enough, right? Do you want to go back and train some more?"
"I-I'm just kidding, class monitor!" Seeing this, Lin Ling quickly admitted her mistake and hurriedly trotted forward a few steps to put some 'safe' distance between herself and the furious immortal, hoping to comfort herself.
[System prompt: The host successfully angered Fu Hua and obtained Inch Force·Landslide.]
Great! Ouch, it hurts!
The system prompt that she had drawn something good made Lin Ling very happy, but as soon as she moved her body too quickly, her muscles started aching again.
"Paramaecium." So she waved to Kiana beside her. "Come and help me."
"Okay!" With the blood of the Kaslana family, Kiana naturally found it hard to refuse a cute girl's request, and she immediately ran over excitedly.
However, when Kiana was about to put Lin Ling's hand on her shoulder, Mei intervened.
"Kiana, you're always too impatient. Let me take care of her."
After saying that, she directly grabbed one of Lin Ling's hands and placed it on her shoulder, using the other to support Lin Ling's slender waist.
"Wow~" Lin Ling, now half-hanging on Mei, stretched out her voice. "Miss Mei is so proactive? Are you in love with me?"
"Please don't say weird things. The only person I like is... ahem." Almost revealing something in her heart, Mei blushed. "Anyway, it's just mutual concern between classmates."
"Haha, I figured it out a long time ago. You like Kiana, right?"
Mei was shocked upon hearing this and felt a bit shy: 'Is it really that obvious? Even Lin Ling, whom I've just met for a day, can see it?'
"But it doesn't matter." Lin Ling smiled. "I like both of you, so let's go together, um! Let's just attack Paramecium together tonight!"
"..."
Mei was speechless. She really wanted to give this girl a heavy shoulder throw! But considering that Lin Ling had already been tormented by class monitor, she held back.
[System prompt: The host successfully made Mei Raiden feel moderate shyness, anger, shock, and other complex emotions. Obtained Far Eastern Ancient Martial Arts·Hokushin Ittō-ryū.]
Nice! Now I have both boxing and swordsmanship. I've gained a lot today.
"Huh? Why would you attack me? Oh! I get it. You must think I'm really strong, right?"
After a while of thinking, Kiana's little brain came up with an explanation she was satisfied with. "You think you have no chance of winning in a fight against me alone, right? Hahaha. It doesn't matter, you can come at me together! Well, but since you can't even walk today, let's duel another day."
"Oh, another day sounds good." Lin Ling nodded eagerly after hearing this, then remembered something. "By the way, a real battle must be even scarier than the class monitor's training, right?"
"Well, of course. Facing the Honkai beasts and zombies who won't hold back is much more dangerous than this. But it's the duty and mission of us Valkyries!"
As someone who had been scolded often, Kiana finally got to enjoy the feeling of being a senior in front of the newcomer Lin Ling. She patted Lin Ling on the shoulder and said in a boastful tone, "Just like last time when the four of us—Mei, Bronya, Aunt Himeko, and I—saved the world!"
"Saved the world?! Is it really that amazing?" Lin Ling asked eagerly. "What exactly happened? Can you tell me?"
"No problem!" Kiana struck a Kaslana family gunfighting pose and proudly said, "You may not believe it, but not long ago, we defeated a super-large and super-powerful Honkai beast that could devour a city in one bite. What was its name again... I think it was called Jiyou?"
"Idiot Kiana, it's Chiyou," Bronya corrected.
"Humph, whatever, the pronunciation is almost the same."
Oh, so it turns out that Chiyou was defeated not long ago.
Through Kiana and the others' descriptions, Lin Ling finally knew what time it was. This should be the beginning of the second year of Kiana and the others' rare two years of happy school life.
If that's the case, she remembers that according to the schedule... it seems the people of Anti-Entropy should come to the academy to cause trouble soon, right? Hmm... what was the situation at that time again?
'Damn, this seems to be a plot from the manga that was published a long time ago. I can't remember it clearly. Alas, if I had known I would go here, I would have memorized the plot by heart.'
It's a pity it's too late now.
Although Lin Ling couldn't remember everything, she still recalled one thing very clearly: in this incident, Mei faced danger, and her Herrscher persona awakened.
In other words, she might be able to gain a lot of power from the Herrscher soon? Well, it'd be great if she could get some power to manipulate lightning.
Lin Ling secretly calculated.